Ezekiel 16:40
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New International Version (©2011)
They will bring a mob against you, who will stone you and hack you to pieces with their swords.

New Living Translation (©2007)
They will band together in a mob to stone you and cut you up with swords.

English Standard Version (©2001)
They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They will bring a mob against you to stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

International Standard Version (©2012)
They'll bring a mob against you to stone you to death and cut you into pieces with their swords.

NET Bible (©2006)
They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They will also bring a mob against you. They will stone you and cut you into pieces with their swords.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

American King James Version
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

American Standard Version
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

Darby Bible Translation
And they shall bring up an assemblage against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

English Revised Version
They shall also bring up an assembly against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

Webster's Bible Translation
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

World English Bible
They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Young's Literal Translation
And have caused an assembly to come up against thee, And stoned thee with stones, And thrust thee through with their swords,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

16:1-58 In this chapter God's dealings with the Jewish nation, and their conduct towards him, are described, and their punishment through the surrounding nations, even those they most trusted in. This is done under the parable of an exposed infant rescued from death, educated, espoused, and richly provided for, but afterwards guilty of the most abandoned conduct, and punished for it; yet at last received into favour, and ashamed of her base conduct. We are not to judge of these expressions by modern ideas, but by those of the times and places in which they were used, where many of them would not sound as they do to us. The design was to raise hatred to idolatry, and such a parable was well suited for that purpose.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - The punishment of stoning was, as a rule, inflicted by the "congregation" (Numbers 15:36), or by the men of the city (Leviticus 20:2). Other forms of punishement for impurity were those of the sword and burning, as in Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 21:9. The thrusting through (better, hewing; the word is not found elsewhere) probably points to mutilation after death, as in the case of Agog (1 Samuel 15:33: comp. Judges 19:29; Daniel 2:5; Daniel 3:29). in this case the "congregation" or "company" is the army of the Chaldeans, and each form of punishment has its counterpart in the various agencies which they employed for the punishment of the city.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They shall also bring up a company against thee,.... An army, so the Targum; the Chaldean army:

and they shall stone thee with stones: cast out of their engines and slings, by which they battered the walls, as well as killed the inhabitants; and so the Targum renders it, with sling stones; the allusion is to the stoning of adulterous persons, Deuteronomy 22:24;

and thrust thee through with their swords; such as attempted to escape out of the city, or fell into the hands of the enemy when it was taken, were slain with the sword.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

40. (Eze 23:10, 47). Compare as to the destruction under Titus, Lu 19:43, 44.

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Judgment on Jerusalem
…39And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places: they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your fair jewels, and leave you naked and bore. 40They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords. 41And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women: and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you also shall give no hire any more. …

Ezekiel 23:47 The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords; they will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.
Habakkuk 1:6 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.